A great book with NO SPARK NOTES !

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A great book with NO SPARK NOTES !

by Douglas Bates

Feb 19, 2011

The Notting Hill Mystery was recently mentioned in the NY Times as the first Detective Novel written in english. Now, it's available as an eBook for $3, and as a teacher, you have permission to copy it for the classroom!

Students will have a hard time bypassing reading this book, because there are no SparkNotes, no CliffsNotes, nothing to circumvent ACTUAL READING.

I ePublished this book in order to make it available at a considerably lower price than the $24 paperback. I hope you find to be useful in the classroom.

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Mark Wow, you're selling this PUBLIC DOMAIN (free) work for $3?

We'd be foolish to go get the FREE version from Wikipedia or other web sites. [link removed]

And it's arguably NOT the first "detective novel" (see [link removed])

Feb 20, 2011

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Douglas Bates On 2/20/11, Mark wrote:

> We'd be foolish to go get the FREE version from Wikipedia or > other web sites. > [link removed]

It was because I could not read the Wiki book that I spent hundreds of dollars to republish this book and update the artwork. As the publisher, I only make $1 per sale. I am looking to recoup my cost...See More

Feb 20, 2011

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D Bates I ePublished this book in order to make it available at a > considerably lower price than the $24 paperback. I hope you > find to be useful in the classroom.

I want to emphasize the fact that this book is eligible for *free copies* for classroom use, based on one $3 purchase per class. The Notting Hill Mystery is a great work of fict...See More

Jul 14, 2011

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